Employment Opportunities

Graduate Teaching Assistantships

TA’s are paid approximately $13,800 annually and we prioritize graduate students for these positions—Masters students have two years of priority for placement; Doctoral students have four years of priority placement. The number of available positions is contingent on Faculty budget and overall student numbers.

Positions available for fall 2024

  • Cultural Studies 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • English 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • Creative Writing 100, 200 & 300 Level Courses
  • Interdisciplinary Performance 200 Level Courses
  • Visual Arts 100 Level Courses
  • Art History 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • Media Studies (all Levels) Courses
  • Film 100 Level Courses
  • CCS 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • Spanish and World Literatures 100 & 200 Level Courses

GTA duties include the following:

  • Marking assignments and exams
  • Managing discussion periods
  • Teaching tutorials and/or lectures under supervision of faculty
  • Invigilation duties
  • Academic assistance to students in office hours
  • Estimated hours of work per term: 192

Eligibility:

  • Must be a registered full-time student in a Master’s or PhD program at UBC Okanagan
  • Must possess necessary educational qualifications
  • Priority is given to graduate students in FCCS

Salary:

  • GTA I – $40.48 per hour
  • GTA II – $39.01 per hour

Application deadline: April 30 each year for fall 2024 positions

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Graduate Marker

Eligibility:

  • Must be registered full-time in a Master’s or PhD program at UBC Okanagan
  • Must possess necessary educational qualifications
  • Priority is given to graduate students in FCCS

Positions available:

  • There are no positions at this time

Markers are paid $20.97 per hour.

Marker duties may include the following:

  • Attending lectures
  • Marking exams, tests or assignments which require only objective marking
  • Provide feedback to students as needed during a weekly office hour

Estimated hours of work:  6-12 per week

The number of available positions is contingent on Faculty budget and overall student numbers.

Application deadline: We are not accepting applications at this time. 

The apply for marker positions, applicants are required to submit cover letter, statement of relevant experience and unofficial transcript as one pdf document.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistantships

To be eligible for a UTA position, students must be registered in a bachelor degree and enrolled full-time studies (minimum 24 credits) at UBCO. Preference is given to students who are majoring in an FCCS program.

UTA duties may include the following:

  • Assist and supervise students during writing labs
  • Assist with marking quizzes
  • Attend selected class sessions
  • Attend meetings with the instructor
  • Invigilation duties during in-class and final exams
  • Assist students using Canvas
  • Meet with students during weekly office hours
  • Communicate with students through email
  • Assist with photocopying exams and other instructional materials, and in the preparation of study materials
  • Engage in professional development activities
  • Estimated hours of work: maximum 12 hours per week depending on workload.

Eligibility:

  • Must be registered in a bachelor’s program at UBC Okanagan
  • Must possess the necessary educational qualifications
  • Preference is given to students who have a major in an FCCS program

Positions available:

  • Creative Writing 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • Interdisciplinary Performance 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • Visual Arts 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • Art History 100 & 200 Level Courses
  • Media Studies 100 & 200 Level Courses

Salary:

  • UTA: $22.26 per hour

The number of available positions is contingent on Faculty budget and overall student numbers.

We are not accepting applications at this time


Undergraduate Marker

Undergraduate Markers are paid $20.97 per hour. To be eligible for a Marker position, students must be registered in a bachelor’s program at UBC Okanagan and posses the necessary educational qualifications.

Marker duties may include the following:

  • Marking assignments and exams
  • Helping facilitate discussions
  • Academic assistance to students in office hours
  • Assisting with the online learning environment.
  • Communicate with students through email.
  • ** MUST have basic knowledge the Internet, Word, Power Point, PDF documents, Canvas, etc.

Estimated hours of work:  6-12 per week

The number of available positions is contingent on Faculty budget and overall student numbers.

Application deadline: We are not accepting applications for Markers at this time. 

The apply for marker positions, applicants are required to submit cover letter, statement of relevant experience and unofficial transcript as one pdf document to: fccs.ubco@ubc.ca.

We are not accepting applications at this time

Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistantships

RAs are employment opportunities for qualified students offered by faculty members with research grants and contracts. As a paid research assistant, graduate students assist their supervisor or other researchers in conducting high-level research, which often contributes to the student’s thesis or dissertation. Undergraduate students often work on projects with faculty researchers. RAs are not guaranteed because they follow the financial cycles of the supervisor’s and faculty researcher external grants and contracts.

Current Positions

“E-Race-sures and Reclamations” Digital Mapping Project Research Assistant

The “E-Race-sures and Reclamations “Digital Mapping Project” is a UBC Hampton-funded project at UBCO.

The project is focused on: 1) a critical analysis of the conventional map and imaginaries of Canada as a dominant form of erasure of histories and presences of Indigenous communities and subsequent settler-of-colour communities; and 2) reclamations of those communities.

Working with Dr. Anita Girvan (Principal Investigator), the RA will independently conduct research to support and contribute to the “Digital mapping” tool which will be offered for use in K-12 Educational settings and also within post-secondary Canadian Studies contexts and even for general interested publics.

Deadline to apply: September 23, 2024

See below for more information and details on how to apply.

The candidate will work with the PI and another member of the tech team to research specific sites on the map of Canada and the layers of cultural histories and presence beneath the dominant narratives of those places.

Duties

  • Meeting regularly with supervisor and digital mapping coder to review the research
  • Attending nsiylxcen language classes, with the goal of grounding in syilx place
  • Researching places in Canada (on-line and in books)
  • Contributing to an annotated bibliography of places
  • Contributing short text ‘blurbs’ to add to map

Timeline

This position is open to graduate students at UBCO who can work 5-8 hours/week for approximately 10-12 weeks commencing October 2024.

The successful candidate will have:

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent critical analysis skills
  • Some social science understandings of politics and culture and power in Canada
  • Lived, embodied experience in Indigenous and/or non-white racialized communities in Canada
  • Familiarity with K-12 schooling in Canada and ‘the map’ of Canada presented in these settings
  • Capacity to meet weekly on-line and sometimes in person
  • Experience working in teams and independently
  • Skills in time management and delivery of research outputs
  • Curiosity and interest in uncovering marginalized histories and presences in Canada

 Strongly Preferred

  • Experience in university research teams
  • Some experience with JavaScript, coding projects

Deadline to apply

September 23, 2024

How to apply:

Please send the following with the subject line: RA position application_(Your name):

  • a cover letter that names your qualifications as noted above
  • your resume/CV
  • the names and contact info for 3 references

To Dr Anita Girvan (Principal Investigator): anita.girvan@ubc.ca

Interviews of selected candidates will take place between September 20-30

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